Greetings from your friendly, neighborhood, TERRORIST!

On 7 Oct 2004 10:10:28 -0700, (Jim Rosinski) wrote:

Here
are two examples, hopelessly outdated because it's been a decade or
more since I regularly watched broadcast TV news.

Okay, here's a more recent one, from NPR:

There was the usual priestly sex scandal in Austria: somebody diddled
a seminarian. The reporter, who was English, added a sentence to this
effect: "The Catholic church is going to continue to have these
scandals until it rethinks its position on celibacy and marriage."

She was so reflexively opposed to the church's doctrine that it never
occurred to her that the prospect of marrying a fine plump Austrian
woman would hardly have deterred the Herr Vater from chasing
seminarians, if that's where his preference lay.
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Cub,

There was the usual priestly sex scandal in Austria: somebody diddled
a seminarian.


That's one way to put it. Destroying the life of a fellow human while
abusing a position of power given by the Catholic sect, err, Church,
would be another. Possibly a less tasteless view.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Jay, you should get the Wall Street Journal. Hey! Business expense!

I love the Wall Street Journal!

Sadly, the WSJ distributor in Iowa City is such a useless piece of crap that
I can't stomach the thought of paying for the kind of horrible customer
service they provide. Their idea of "service" is to throw the paper in the
street.

It's one of the downsides of being in newspapers for 20+ years. I still
know everyone!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

She was so reflexively opposed to the church's doctrine that it never
occurred to her that the prospect of marrying a fine plump Austrian
woman would hardly have deterred the Herr Vater from chasing
seminarians, if that's where his preference lay.

Maybe that's why I like NPR? Religiously and, in some ways, socially -- I'm
a "liberal"? (I actually agree with the reporter, although her comment
doesn't belong in a "news" report.)

However, fiscally, morally (yes, I separate that from religion),
domestically, and in other ways, socially, I'm a True Conservative.

Which is why I am screaming (along with millions of my fellow Americans) for
a viable third party.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Cub Driver wrote:
In July I went to a dinner party where there was a guest from England.
When the subject of NPR came up, he said: What's that? Without
thinking, I said: "National Partisan Radio."

Omigod! The Good People at table were so upset their teeth were
chattering.

Wow. You hang out with some really uptight people.

Viva Bush! www.vivabush.org

Are you the same "Dan Ford" which publishes the above site?

If so, you have one helluva lot of nerve in joining in on a thread on
unbiased reporting.

Stefan wrote

Right. There are absolutely no absolutes. If you see the
self-inconsistency in those words, you should be able to see it in
yours as well.

Surprize, this was one of the main philosophical problems the humanists
encountered. Descarte's solution was cogito, ergo sum. This solution is
broadly accepted since the 17th century. Maybe I'm slightly less stupid
than you might think.

Actually I didn't mean it that way at all. If my words seemed
patronizing, it was only out of respect for the presumption (based on
some trivial grammar errors and your return address) that English is
not your first language.

As to the substance of your post, maybe I'm dense but I don't see how
"cogito, ergo sum" explains why self-inconsistency is acceptable.

Jim Rosinski

John,

Are you the same "Dan Ford" which publishes the above site?

If so, you have one helluva lot of nerve in joining in on a thread on
unbiased reporting.


It says so in his sig.

Stunning!

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

John Harlow wrote:

Viva Bush! www.vivabush.org

Are you the same "Dan Ford" which publishes the above site?

If so, you have one helluva lot of nerve in joining in on a thread on
unbiased reporting.

Why? The issue is biased reporting, not biased opinions. Mr. Ford has
never made a secret of his conservative views. Even the name of the
website you mention advertises which side of the political spectrum he's on.

I read Maureen Dowd's column (NYT Op-ed columnist) all the time. I've no
problem with her saying "Bush is an idiot". Problem is, when opinions
like that bleed over into the ostensibly "news" portions of the paper.

Jim Rosinski

In article Xkv9d.144780$wV.55055@attbi_s54, "Jay Honeck"
writes:


Maybe that's why I like NPR? Religiously and, in some ways, socially -- I'm
a "liberal"? (I actually agree with the reporter, although her comment
doesn't belong in a "news" report.)

However, fiscally, morally (yes, I separate that from religion),
domestically, and in other ways, socially, I'm a True Conservative.

Which is why I am screaming (along with millions of my fellow Americans) for
a viable third party.

We've been waiting for you. www.lp.org

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG